Elmhurst · Licensed center
Ladybug & Friends Daycare & Preschool
A center in Elmhurst, licensed for 68 children. Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
Medium center. Medium means the middle half of Chicago-area’s 1,949 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 49 to 118 children. Small is 8 to 48; large is 119 to 487.
Shortlist doesn’t have these yet: cost, hours and late pickup, teaching approach, ratios and staff, a typical day, sick and biting policies.
What the state has found
Routine visits: 3 of 3 cited something
Across Chicago-area centers, the state cites something at about 5 in 6 routine visits (19,088 visits). Three visits are too few to read as a pattern.
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked September 25, 2026.
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- January 13, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since February 2025 — all of them cited findings
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was January 26, 2026. Illinois DCFS does not publish whether it was made.
- Most serious
- Illinois DCFS does not publish a severity level for a citation, so there is no most-serious to name.
Illinois DCFS cites each subsection of a rule separately, so one audit of a filing cabinet can produce ten citations. It publishes the rule’s title and a correction deadline, but no description of what was observed.
Jan 2026 Monitoring visit 5 findings
Monitoring visit · January 13, 2026
Medications
3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.360(b) through (c)(2) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.360(b) · 407.360(b)(1) · 407.360(c)(2)
Daily Arrival and Departure of Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.260(e)(3) · Violation corrected
Cited: CCASEC4
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 634832 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Apr 2025 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · April 29, 2025
Staffing Structure
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(f)(2) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 634832 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Feb 2025 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · February 25, 2025
Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(f)(7) through (19) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(f)(7) · 407.210(f)(19)
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 634832 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 6303850515
- Address
- 623 W North Ave
- License
- license issued (il)
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Sources and dates
Where every fact on this page came from, and when Shortlist last checked it against that source. Anything Shortlist could not source is named here rather than left blank.
All checked August 2026.
State record
Every state visit and complaint on file, shown in full and never edited. Open a date to read what the state wrote.
Details
- Phone, Address, License — sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "LADYBUG & FRIENDS DAYCARE & PRESCHOOL" under Provider Name and 60126 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 634832).